Hung castor from this season in my fur shed until bone dry. Bought a food processor from good-will, and used scissors to cut it all down into “thumb-nail” sized pieces. The processor was able to turn it into a coffee ground consistently. From there I put it into a glass Masson jar enough 80 proof vodka to semi rehydrate, some pancake syrup out of the kitchen which had sodium- benzoate within the ingredients, a little cinnamon and nutmeg. My plan is to let it season thru the spring, summer, fall, and then I will put some glycerin in it come cold weather.

Awesome!!! How neat you tried this

it's a lot easier to just open up the green castors and scrap out the contents and add glycerin or mineral oil to make a paste.
The sac that contains the actual castor is of no value in making the lure.

Boco gave me a tip about using blackstrap molasses as a binder. Been using it for years. I use Everclear grain alcohol instead of vodka.

Can’t go wrong with castor! Your stuff will catch.
I only hang my castor for lure for about a day, then into the freezer. There’s lots of juice when I cut it up. Just whipped up a batch a few days ago too, but my little processor doesn’t chop it that fine, I spun it for about 5 min.
Castor, tiny bit of beaver oil & anise, poplar bud oil and glycerin. I leave the castor out for food lures and add a couple other goodies.

Same here, I have four different varieties. Sometimes I splurge though and buy some Backbreaker or Woodchipper.

I doubt you need glycerin for antifreeze.

Castor whole Sacs dried hanging a couple weeks, run through a rocket blender/ chopper
popple bud oil -few drops
Beaver Oil -few drops
Glycol not Glycerine for mine
capful of peppermint schnapps

.* Two secret ingredients.

I never added anything to my fresh castor other than glycerin. I want to keep my lure as natural as possible.

I have stopped adding any bud oils to my spring beaver lure as it tends to attract unwanted muskrats because our season is closed.

Nice job

A guy that know his stuff that learned from a guy that also knows his stuff told me to just grind up a fresh female castor. I respect what he said. But I dont want to find out at under $10 beaver

Someone recommend cheep red wine to me long ago for rehydration,,…..

Your formula? Are you planning on it be a castor mound lure ? Food? Call? Or a all around?

Castor lure / curiosity I assume. I will use it as I have my other heavy castor lures.

Sounds similar to my homemade recipe. I use cheap whiskey instead of vodka. It catches beaver well for me.

My wife calls my beaver-castor-only food processor a butthole grinder.

I get great results without griding and adding extra stuff.